text-generation-webui-colab

Why we included this project

Each notebook in this collection bundles a specific open model, most in 4-bit or 8-bit quantized form, with a Gradio chat interface and a one-click Colab launch. That means you can spin up Vicuna, Koala, or the Llama 2 line in your browser after the runtime boots, without buying a GPU or wrestling with dependencies yourself. For quick side-by-side comparisons of older and newer open LLMs, or for prototyping a chat app on a tight budget, the convenience is hard to beat. Be aware these are runnable examples rather than a maintained framework, and several entries are marked work in progress, so expect to adapt a notebook before it fits your use case. It is a practical way to sample a handful of open models before you invest in dedicated serving.